Ground stone - Wikipedia
In archaeology, ground stone is a category of stone tool formed by the grinding of a coarse-grained tool stone, either purposely or incidentally. Ground stone tools are usually made of basalt , rhyolite , granite , or other cryptocrystalline and igneous stones whose coarse structure makes them ideal for grinding other materials, including ...
An Introduction to the Study of Ancient Ground Stone
(July 30, 2020)—In archaeology, we classify many stone tools that we find as “ground stone” objects. Ground stone objects can be almost any stone or mineral—flaked stone not included—that has experienced some kind of human intervention.
Prehistoric Stone Tools Categories and Terms - ThoughtCo
2019年9月29日 · Ground Stone Tool Types . Tools made from ground stone, such as basalt, granite and other heavy, coarse stones, were pecked, ground and/or polished into useful shapes.
Lithics Basics (Chapter 2) - Stone Tools in the Paleolithic and ...
The principal categories of groundstone tools are pulverizing equipment (grinding slabs, querns, handstones, mortars, pestles, etc.) used to process seeds, mineral pigments and other substances, celts (core-tools with polished working edges), stone vessels, and a variety of other perforated and incised objects.
Full Grooved Axes - U.S. National Park Service
2021年10月28日 · The full grooved axe, the first type of axe developed by the Indigenous peoples of North America, was an essential part of a larger tool kit of ground stone tools that Native North Americans began making during the Archaic period, between 9,000-2,700 years before present (BP).
Stone Artifacts - SpringerLink
2020年7月28日 · The immense variety of ground-stone tools makes a unified information language rather overwhelming, so this section concentrates on some of the most common types of grinding stones: lower milling stones (querns, metates), upper milling stones (handstones, manos), mortars and pestles (e.g., Wright 1992).
There are two types of stone tools identified: ground stone tools including manos (grinding stones-left) and hand axes, and flaked stone tools including knives, scrapers and projectile points (arrow heads and spear points-above). Projectile points are razor sharp and used in hunting.
Stone Tools in the Ancient Near East and Egypt: Ground stone tools ...
This book deals with groundstone tools, rock-cut installations and stone vessels in the Ancient Near East and Egypt from the Prehistory to the Late Antiquity, with the aim of exploring various aspects of these objects, from raw material procurement to uses and their socio-economic and cultural meanings.
Introduction. Leave no stone unturned: Perspectives on ground stone ...
2016年10月31日 · Ground stone tools served in many physical and social contexts through millennia, reflecting a wide variety of functions. Although ground stone tool studies were neglected for much of early archaeology, the last few decades witnessed a notable international uptick in the way archaeologists confront this multifaceted topic.
A functional study of ground stone tools from the Bronze Age …
2021年12月1日 · Ground stone tools were a revolutionary technology that appeared during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene periods and played a key role in the economic and ritual activities of many prehistoric and early historic societies.